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By the early 1970s the council had outgrown County Offices. A modern facility, known as "New County Hall", was designed by the County Architect to accommodate the County Council's administrative staff: it was built adjacent to the original 1841 County Hall and was completed in 1973. The design for
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The limited office space at County Hall required the council to establish other premises for its staff. In 1911–1912 a new building called "County Offices" was built at the corner of Tidmarsh Lane and New Road, lying on the opposite side of the castle mound from County Hall. County Offices was
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main frontage of five bays facing New Road: the central section featured a projecting castellated porch containing a round headed doorway with a small round headed window above encircled with the inscription "County Hall A.D. MDCCCXLI" ("County Hall A.D. 1841"); there were
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New County Hall was built on the site of the Swan & Castle Public House which was built in 1896 and demolished in 1968, as well as the Salvation Army Citadel which was built in 1888 and also demolished in
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designed by William Austin Daft and built in white limestone with yellow sandstone dressings. Council meetings continued to be held at County Hall, with County Offices being the main administrative building.
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was completed in October 1985. Meetings of the county council continued to be held in the council chamber located within the old County Hall.
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The building continued to be used as a facility for dispensing justice but, following the implementation of the
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The old building continued to be used as a courthouse – it was the venue for the trial and conviction of
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the five-storey building involved continuous bands of glazing with concrete panels above and below.
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described it as "quite the most abominable pseudo-Gothic Assize Court in all England".
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Castle, Canal & College: Worcester Street Car Park & related areas, Oxford
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The 1912 County Offices at Tidmarsh Lane is now used as the Oxford
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at roof level and the other bays contained round headed windows.
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County Offices (now the Register Office), 1 Tidmarsh Lane
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but towards the end of the century they were moved to
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Oxford
Oxfordshire
51°45′06″N 1°15′42″W / 51.7518°N 1.2618°W / 51.7518; -1.2618
John Plowman
Gothic Revival style
Listed Building
County Hall, Oxford is located in Oxfordshire
New Road
Oxford
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire County Council
listed building
assizes
quarter sessions
Oxford Castle
Oxford Town Hall
John Plowman
Gothic Revival style
castellated
turrets
Sir Charles Oman
Local Government Act 1888
Oxfordshire County Council


Donald Neilson
kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle
Oxford Combined Court Centre
St Aldate's

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